Example sentences of "now [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His arm was round her waist now as-they walked on , quietly , anticipatingly . |
| 2 | I had for too long been conscious only of my own concerns , but now I became aware that those around me were troubled and at odds . |
| 3 | Now I became the second edition . |
| 4 | But now I feared I was getting too old for romantic friendships . |
| 5 | Now I had to be on my guard against AIDS and the Devil . |
| 6 | Now I had the blues and playing it was suddenly all so easy |
| 7 | Now I had a new mission in life — to ensure that every tinker caravan in Ireland contained a picture of a donkey dancing while a devil played the fiddle . |
| 8 | Now I had to reach the shopping centre and meet Ray Coary the manager , who would find me accommodation . |
| 9 | ‘ Until now I had no-one to tell things to and that 's almost as much fun as learning them . ’ |
| 10 | Now I had always supposed I had travelled very little , restricted as I am by my responsibilities in the house , but of course , over time , one does make various excursions for one professional reason or another , and it would seem I have become much more acquainted with those neighbouring districts than I had realized . |
| 11 | One person might say : ‘ I am a workaholic , because I realize now I had to win points to get the approval I craved from my parents . ’ |
| 12 | Now I had the hang of it , I racked up a handful of top to bottoms with plenty of vertical . |
| 13 | Now I had to start thinking in world terms , for those Championships were coming in 1987 . |
| 14 | I had set a fashion but now I had to keep ahead of it , had to keep people wondering what I would wear next . |
| 15 | But now I had something to say . |
| 16 | Now I had never before tried to regress anyone to a time when they were under the influence of anaesthetic , but I decided to do so on this occasion . |
| 17 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 18 | The turbine had arrived from the works , and also the alternator , which by now I had learned was merely another name for a generator , though of a fancier kind as it made AC whereas a generator made only DC . |
| 19 | But there was still no sign of the elusive owl , and now I had another quest , too . |
| 20 | Now I had the difficulty of how to collect the owl . |
| 21 | Now I had a pair who were not from the same parents and who seemed fairly suited . |
| 22 | By now I had a long list of prospective release sites and sound experience behind me , so things went pretty much according to plan . |
| 23 | By now I had a baby sister Clare , and it was something that happened to her which helped to shape my destiny and provided the first step on my road to Koraloona . |
| 24 | She was twelve years younger than my father , and for years now I had called her Margaret , but until that moment I had always thought of her as firmly fixed in the older generation . |
| 25 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 26 | Now I had a kidney transplant in nineteen eighty four . |
| 27 | Now I had reached the remains of one of those chalk banks built by Victorian engineers . |
| 28 | Now I had reached the Was dale Head Hotel . |
| 29 | Everything had happened in the wrong order , and now I had to try to bring my feelings up to counter-balance the overpowering weight of this physical attraction which had sprung up out of nowhere and knocked me sideways . |
| 30 | He 'd had to go through that wrench of premature separation alone ; now I had to . |